Books

By Corey R. Payne. Forthcoming June 2027. Stanford University Press.
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World-Systems Analysis at a Critical Juncture
Edited by Corey R. Payne, Roberto Patricio Korzeniewicz, and Beverly J. Silver. 2022. Routledge.
[Read the Introduction.]
Articles and Book Chapters

Payne, Corey R. 2026. “Workers and War-Making Through Space and Time: A Relational Approach.” Global Labour Journal 17(3)

Kalb, Zep, and Corey R. Payne. 2026. “Rethinking War and Workers’ Power for the Twenty-First Century.” Global Labour Journal 17(3)
Introduction to co-edited special issue.

Korzeniewicz, Roberto Patricio, and Corey R. Payne. 2025. “‘Billionaires’ and Capitalist Development in World-Historical Perspective: Introducing the World-Magnates Data Set, 1450-1914.” Sociology of Development 11(3):239-65.

Payne, Corey R., and Ori Swed. 2024. “Disentangling the US Military’s Climate Change Paradox: An Institutional Approach.” Sociology Compass 18(1):1-16.

Payne, Corey R. 2023. “From Mass Mobilization to Neoliberal War-Making: Labor Strikes and Military-Industrial Transformation in the United States.” International Journal of Comparative Sociology 64(5):481-508.

Payne, Corey R., and Beverly J. Silver. 2022. “Domination Without Hegemony and the Limits of US World Power.” Political Power and Social Theory. 39:159-177.
Portuguese Translation. 2022. Caderno CRH. 35:1-17.

Korzeniewicz, Roberto Patricio, and Corey R. Payne. 2021. “Spatial Transformations in World-Historical Perspective: Towards Mapping the Space and Time of Wealth Accumulation.” Pp. 109-19 in Spatial Transformations: Kaleidoscopic Perspectives on the Refiguration of Spaces, edited by A. Million, C. Haid, I.C. Ulloa, and N. Baur. Routledge.

Silver, Beverly J., and Corey R. Payne. 2020. “Crises of World Hegemony and the Speeding Up of Social History”. Pp. 17-31 in Hegemony and World Order: Reimagining Power in Global Politics, edited by P. Dutkiewicz, T. Casier, & J.A. Scholte. Routledge.
French translation. 2021. Nouveaux Cahiers du Socialisme 25:hiver.
Portuguese translation. 2021. Reoriente: estudos sobre marxismo, dependência e sistemas-mundo 1(1):26-43.

Payne, Corey R. 2020. “War and Workers’ Power in the United States: Labor Struggles in War-Provisioning Industries, 1993-2016.” Journal of Labor and Society 23(1):111-130.

Korzeniewicz, Roberto Patricio, and Corey R. Payne. 2020. “Rethinking Core and Periphery in Historical Capitalism: World-Magnates and The Shifting Epicenters of Wealth Accumulation.” Pp. 155-67 in Economic Cycles and Social Movements: Past, Present and Future, edited by E. Mielants and S.B. Katsiaryna. Routledge.
Portuguese translation. 2020. Repensando o Trabalho, as Desigualdades e as Hierarquias: O Sistema-mundo no seculo XXI, edited by R. Goulart Menezes, A. Brussi, & J. Dantas da Costa. Editoria Universidade de Brasilia.

Korzeniewicz, Roberto Patricio, and Corey R. Payne. 2019. “Sugar, Slavery, and Creative Destruction: World-Magnates and ‘Coreification’ in the Longue-Durée.” Journal of World-Systems Research 25(2):395-419.
Winner of the 2020 Distinguished Article Award, Political Economy of the World-System (PEWS) Section of the American Sociological Association

Pasciuti, Daniel S., and Corey R. Payne. 2017. “Illusion in Crisis? World-Economic and Zonal Volatility, 1975-2013.” Pp. 50-64 in The World-System as Unit of Analysis: Past Contributions and Future Advances, edited by R.P. Korzeniewicz. Routledge. (Online Appendices).
Magazines, Reviews, and Other Publications

Payne, Corey R. 2024. “System change, not return to the same: A comment on Tooze’s ‘Hegemony Notes’,” Marxist Sociology: Theory, Research, Politics, July 21.

Payne, Corey. 2023. “How Financial Institutions Like Silicon Valley Bank Fund the Weapons Industry,” Jacobin Magazine, March 23.

Payne, Corey. 2022. “Financialization Feeds Endless War,” Convergence Magazine, June 2.

Payne, Corey R. 2021. “Review of: Pacifying the Homeland: Intelligence Fusion and Mass Supervision by Brendan McQuade.” Journal of World-Systems Research 27(2):586-9.

Payne, Corey R. 2020. “How do wars affect workers in the United States?,” Work In Progress: Sociology on the Economy, Work and Inequality, June 19.

Payne, Corey R. 2020. “Review of: First-Class Passengers on a Sinking Ship: Elite Politics and the Decline of Great Powers by Richard Lachmann.” Journal of World-Systems Research 26(2):424-7.

Payne, Corey R. 2019. “Review of The Great Leveler: Violence and the History of Inequality from the Stone Age to the Twenty-First Century by Walter Scheidel.” Journal of World-Systems Research 25(1):200-5.

Payne, Corey. 2016. “The School of Subcontracting,” Jacobin Magazine, October 25.